MRI uncovers disrupted hippocampal microstructure that underlies memory impairments after early-life adversity

Hippocampus

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1618-1632

  Molet, Jenny ^a   Maras, Pamela M ^b   Kinney Lang, Eli ^b,c   Harris, Neil G ^d   Rashid, Faisal ^c   Ivy, Autumn S ^a   Solodkin, Ana ^a,b   Obenaus, Andre ^c   Baram, Tallie Z ^a,b  

^a Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain networks; cognitive vulnerabilities; diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); early life stress; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXON; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLIA; HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; CROWDING (AREA); DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; MENTAL STRESS; NOISE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CORTICOSTERONE; CROWDING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NOISE; ORGAN SIZE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84991107805     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22661     Document Type: Article

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